Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-11-10
Grains of Gold.

When We do not gOo1 Ne sin.
Custom does often reason GVerrule.
Not every one who dances is glad.
Ii is as natural to die as Io be born.
Fame-a flower upon a dead man 9
heart.
Busy lives, like busy waters. are gen.
orally pure.
Tue strongest men are often the must
teDdeT-heaI led.
Ihe men who made This cuuutry we've
DOT afraid UI Toll.
Money is not required TO buy one Ne
cessIty Tor tue soul.
An evil Intention PergeFts the best
dctlUUs au0 makes tnem sins.
Only the actions of The just smell
sweet and ulussOm III the dust.
Foe cob1uauI OF my vices Is my mas
Crf, though lie were my valet.
Make not thy friends too cheap tU
Lice, uur thyself u Lhy frIenus.
Modes,y wIDueth gUUd report, but
Scoru cUmeLh close upon servLIty.
Let Us take good care of our days,and
our yedIs Will lake cdre Uf themselves.
rhe virtue of Paganisn Was stiength,
The virtue of Christianity is OOedIeuce.
If you see one cold and vehement At
the same tlme,set him dow q as a fanatic.
Though Peter sinned above the rest,
vet, repentinZ, ne is named aUCve the
rest.
INCLINATION never wants for al excuse,
IOr, II one wont 90. there are a dUZSn
others.
Money is a bottomlesS sea, in which
cunscIence, honor. ana truth may be
drowned.
Success, like greatness, is thrust on
une man; 1t COMES not aE tue earnest
NoUIng or anotner.
a Ihird-rate young man is the same,
though he accidentally be placed In Il
tirst-rate position.
What IL is our duty to do We must do
because 1t Is right, not because any Une
can demand II vi US.
NuLhing can atone for The want Of
mudesty, Without WnIcn beauty is uI
graceful and wit detestaole.
A stubborn mInd couduces as little to
wisdom OF even To knowledge, aS stub
born temper 10 happiness.
AS land is imbroved by sowing il
with various seeds, 50 Is The mind by
eXeI cIsing it with different studies.
There are six faults which one ought
To avoid: the desire of riches, droHsI
ness, siutb, ldieDess, fear aud anger.
The great misfortune with most of US
is-we are constantly looking ahead for
our ex xierlence instead of looking be
hind.
The CROWNS of kings do not prevent
hose who wear them iron being lor
meated sometimes by violent heads
aches.
1t is mutually impossible for an old |
man to grow young again; and it is next
10 Impossible for decrepit,aged sinner
10 become d new creature and Do Uoru
again.
Duty puts blue sky over every man |
up in mis- heart, may be into which |
the skylark, happiness, always goes
singing.
Modesty makes large amends for the |
pain it gives the perso0s who labor un
1er II, Oy the preJuQl IL anofdS every |
worthy person 10 their favor.
\ modest person seldom fails to gain |
the good will OF thUse ne conyerses with, |
because NOBODY envl65 man who does !
not appear to he pleased With himself.
Fsnaticism is fire, which heats the |
nihd indeed, tut heats without purify
ing. II stimulates and ferments all the |
passions, but ii rectitieS none OF them.
The desire TO say some great thing has
prevented the u teranco of many IA
wholesome word; and anxiety to ac-
; implish some wonderful work has
;ruSned In the bud many a humble deed
of exceeding grace and sweetness.